Bios

AñA Wojak is an Australian born artist who studied in Gdansk, Poland amid the turmoil of Solidarity and Martial Law. She works in diverse media that include painting, sculpture, site specific installation and set design. She has been a finalist in numerous competitions such as the Archibald Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Award and Blake Prize several times over, winning the 2004 Blake Prize. She has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, both in solo and group exhibitions and her work is held in many private and public collections including Art Bank. Prior to senVoodoo, AñA performed solo at various venues including The Performance Space, Sydney and Sydney Opera House, from 1993 onwards. Her recent paintings have concentrated on capturing the ephemeral quality of light, with oils on burnished steel.
In April 2006 she concluded a 2 month residency at Red Gate Studios in Beijing China with a site specific installation and a performance piece with 6 chinese actors, chinese whispers. AñA was 2007 Artist in Residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, creating ephemeral installations and performance. In 2009 she designed an opera, Purcell's Fairie Queen and a show for Adelaide Cabaret Festival, World War Bob.
Her ongoing durational performance cycle songline, started in Java 07, has travelled through Central Australia, Sydney, Shanghai & Melbourne. It will conclude in 2010 with a voyage retracing her family's migratory route to Australia via Shanghai, Vladivostok, Belorus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland & Berlin.




Fiona McGregor is a novelist, short story and essay writer. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes for her work. Au Pair, a novel, was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel’s Award, Suck My Toes, a book of interlinked short stories, won the Steele Rudd Award. She was voted one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. Her most recent novel chemical palace, which paid homage to Sydney dance party culture, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards. Her short stories have won prizes and been widely anthologised. Her essays, reviews and journalism have appeared in publications in Australia and the UK, including Heat, Meanjin, Real Time and the TLS. She has given readings and papers at a variety of literary and performance related events across Australia for over a decade.
Fiona is currently developing solo work, with an emphasis on endurance and durational performance. In late 2007 she performed the intervention Dead Art at the MCA, and in early 2008 Borne at Performance Space, Sydney.
In September 2008 UWA Press published Strange Museums, a travel book about Poland through the lense of a performance art tour, from which essays have been extracted in Heat, Overland and Meanjin. Her novel Indelible Ink will be published by Scribe in 2010.